For Dental Dam we have terms and definitions in 2 topics. The topics are Sexual Health and Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Dental Dam (Sexual Health)

A six-inch square piece of thin latex placed over the woman's vulva (outside of the vagina) to prevent getting (or giving) an STD during oral sex. A polyurethane or latex condom cut in half will work the same way.

Dental Dam (Sexually Transmitted Diseases)

One type of moisture barrier. People can use one during oral sex to stop STDs, including HIV. It is a square piece of latex that can be put over someone's anus or vagina. (This way germs cannot get into someone's mouth from blood or sexual fluids found in the anus or vagina or else into the vagina or anus from blood found in the mouth.) Dentists use it when they work on someone's mouth so that blood won't splash everywhere.

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